. Richard Henry Dana, jr. ... speeches in stirring times, and letters to a son . oblems, said: — Some may be surprised that this controversy was so longchronic and yet in the end yielded so easily to pronounced treat-ment. The International Commission of Arbitration rendered aunanimous award October 3, 1899, and in that, while givingGreat Britain a large share of the interior territory in dispute,^ 1 See also Presidential Problems, by Grover Cleveland, p. 258. 2 Letter of Lord Granville, May 15, 1885. ^ Art. IV, rule (a) of treaty, Great Britain Foreign Office, VenezuelaNo. 1,1899, p. 3. ^ Let
. Richard Henry Dana, jr. ... speeches in stirring times, and letters to a son . oblems, said: — Some may be surprised that this controversy was so longchronic and yet in the end yielded so easily to pronounced treat-ment. The International Commission of Arbitration rendered aunanimous award October 3, 1899, and in that, while givingGreat Britain a large share of the interior territory in dispute,^ 1 See also Presidential Problems, by Grover Cleveland, p. 258. 2 Letter of Lord Granville, May 15, 1885. ^ Art. IV, rule (a) of treaty, Great Britain Foreign Office, VenezuelaNo. 1,1899, p. 3. ^ Letterof Mr. Olney to Sir Julian Pauneefote, July 13, 189G,pp. 253-254, U. S. For. Rels., 1896. ^ Message of President McKinley to Congress, Dec. 5, 1899, HouseDoc, vol. i, 56th Cong., 1st Sess., 1899, p. xxxii. 336 RICHARD HENRY DANA, JR. gave to Venezuela no little land on and near the coast, whichwas of great value as it commanded the mouth of the Orinoco,and which was a part of the territory Lord Salisbury, in hiscorrespondence of 1895, was unwilling should be submitted to. ■■■•■■■•ExtremeBritish Claim (18951 0000000000 Schomburgh Line, East of which Grent Britain■would not submit to arbitration in 1895 Boundary established by Arbitration Commission in 1899 ^1—t—I—I— Extreme Venezuelan Claim arbitration. Great Britain was allowed about one quarter ofthe interior land which she was willing to arbitrate in 1895. I learn, on sufRcient authority, that President Clevelandfeared, if this matter were allowed to drift on till open rupturecame between England and Venezuela, we should be involvedin the war. Diplomatic relations between England and Vene-zuela had already been broken off, and armed conflicts, followedby threats of war measures, had already occurred in the dis-puted territory. Should war have begun, in which it must appearthat there was good reason to believe Englands claim to ter-ritory had been increased so that her action would seem to bethe
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